The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

attrib, Alfred Brendel . 1931- . Austrian pianist, poet, and author

The only thing my mother would say about my music—I’d say, “Mom, listen to this”, and she’d say, “Junior, I know who you are”.